Primary Orientation Day!

10 more sleeps... 9 more sleeps...

How many after tonight's sleep?...

5 more sleeps....

2 more sleeps...

I can't believe I'm going to school tomorrow!

Well, that tomorrow was today!!! Brenley had looked forward to today for months!!!!! Today was primary orientation day; aka the day at BIG school!

It all started last night, though, when she got ready for bed (which she had to be dressed for a "fashion sleep"?!?! I don't know what that means, either!). Here's what she looked like, totally prepared:

(note: the placement of the backpack, totally packed with gym clothes, indoor sneakers, $5 for chocolate milk to compliment the already-packed-and-on-the-counter lunchbox, which had pancakes!??! Go figure!)


Well, all that was a slight bit hilarious, and although she went to bed at 7:30, as per usual, it was a good 9:30 before she fell asleep!


This morning, Kyle's & my alarms went off at 6am, though we could hear some shuffling in the baby monitor upstairs. So, we laid there and waited to hear. Sure enough... shuffle, shuffle, shuffle... stomp, stomp, stomp... brushing of the teeth (no using of the washroom, though!)... and step, step, step down the stairs.

At 6:05am... a bursting, fully dressed in jeans, t shirt, socks, sneakers, raincoat zipped to her chin, and back pack on the back clad little girl bounded into our room and exclaimed:

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S FINALLY THE DAY I'M GOING TO BIG SCHOOL!!!!

Trying not to laugh/smirk/etc, Kyle pipes up and says:
"Um... Brenley.... what are you doing with your raincoat on?"

Welllllllllllll. I checked out the window and it is raining out, you know!

LOL
Away to school we went an hour and a half later.

She had a wonderful day. She totally surprised me as she wasn't nearly as shy as I though she would be. She spoke up. She did well.

Sitting at her

desk for the day.

With the other primaries

Recess......                in music/Gaelic

using "bean-balls" in

gym

A great day had by all!

How come I can't go again tomorrow, Mamaidh?!?!
How many more sleeps until I can go back?!?!

Another chapter unfolds!

Boob woes

Yeah. So someone should tell Brenley that BOOBS aren't in her future. Voluptuous chest features simply aren't in the genetic make up. Sorry.

Anyway, after her bath the other night at Papa & Grammie's she was looking in the full length mirror:

"Dadaidh, look! Are my boobies getting bigger?!"
"Um, no, Brenley, I don't think so. And you don't need to be worrying about boobs for a lot of years yet!"
"But, look Dadaidh... I think they're getting bigger!"

Good lord.
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Hard day at the sitters

This was an email from Charlene, our babysitter, not too long ago... pretty cute!

Gavin doesn't like to leave Brenley's side even while she sleeps. I thought this was so cute I had to grab the camera.

She said she was really tired so I told her to climb on the couch. I told him to let her sleep a little. I couldn't believe it when he fell asleep sitting up.

It's been almost a month...

.. of nothing too noteworthy and then there's today! Holy frig. I swear that these gems were from today only. Actually they all came in about a 4 hour period:

She went to Helly's house for the afternoon to "play" with Helly & Maire from Ireland. Maire has her harp with her, so I asked Brenley what she thought of the harp, (pretty annoyed):
 "Um, I saw one of those before, you know!"
"Oh, really? Where?"
"At the Barra MacNeil's concert."
"Oh yeah! So did you tell Maire & Helly that?"
"No, I couldn't remember the name of it."
 "Well, what is it called?"
"A Barra MacNeil's play set!"


While downstairs with Dadaidh:
"Um, Dadaidh, what are we doing after this sleep?"
"I dunno"
"Well what about after that sleep?"
"You're going to Charlene's"
"Is that your birthday?"
"Yeah, I guess it is"
"Are you working that day?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, you better not come home before all the party people come here!"


After her bath, waiting for the hockey game to come on, she looked at Kyle on the couch and says with her hands on her hips & her eyes doing their thing:

Um, helll-oooooo?!?! I'm thirsty, you know! I only asked for a drink about 2 hours ago!

Are we there yet?!

We're heading to Moncton for March Break & Brenley's a little impatient. She asked when we left the driveway, "Are we there yet??" (She was thankfully joking!)

So by the Causeway we were looking for something to occupy her & shut her up, so we told her to make a tally of the deer we saw.

The pic shows her tally as of Truro ;) + a pic of Hannah Montana, of course!
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The birds & the bees, please...

While driving home from Sydney one day not too long ago, Miss Brenley decides:

Mamaidh, I think you should have another baby so I can have a little sister. Yeah, you should grow another baby in your belly & I'll name my new little baby sister, Rosie, like on Caillou.

(oh God)

Um, Brenley, you wouldn't know for sure if it was a baby brother or baby sister, though.

Well... anyway... I think you should have another baby... What do you have to do anyway? Like, eat lots of food so that your belly gets bigger and bigger?

Well... no, Brenley that's not quite the way it goes.

 (sings to the radio... loudly)

How does it work then, Mamaidh?

(explicative)

Um, Dadaidh puts a seed in Mamaidh's belly.

 (Note: I had already thought of how to address this when the time would come... and I got the idea from an article in a magazine... Today's Parent or something)

Her eyes grow BIG:

You mean, like when he's shopping for seeds for the garden he just gets a baby one... and what if he put a flower seed instead?!?! Could you grow a flower in your.....

(I switched the stereo to fiddle tunes & told her to whistle/jig along!!!)

Countdown...

You may want to know how badly this girl anticipates things. We're on constant countdowns here:

"How many more sleeps til....

1. ...Smare a makin' home videos?" -- that makes me laugh out loud whenever she says it. It's her version of saying 'America's Funniest Home Videos'
2. ... swimming?" She goes to swimming lessons every Saturday morning and has mastered swimming with the flutter board (even though she fell off it one day & nearly drowned; which she thought was cool?!?!), going down the slide, and even jumping off the diving board (I nearly die each time!).
3. ... Easter?" She was going to be able to take her stud earrings out on Easter,  but one of the backs fell off & went down the tub drain, so we've already moved on to "big girl earrings". However, the countdown is still on because then she'll be able to buy more earrings!!!
4. ... I go to school, Mamaidh?" I keep putting this one off. It's too many sleeps!!!!!!! So now we're gearing up simply for her start at Readiness to Learn, which is a 10 session half-day preschool program for rural area kids.

So, we're always counting sleeps here. In fact, she gets so excited sometimes that tonight after supper she asked,

"Is it tomorrow yet?"

Please don't wish your life away, girly!